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Octavo, [21cm/8.25inches], full gilt-embossed tweed-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xvii, 265 w/ annotations. Blank book plate on ffe. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Sept. 24th, 1975 number of The Kirkus Review noted: Cary tinkered with Jarvis, when teaching himself how to write, from 1924 to 1935 or '37 (Bishop and Allen seem to disagree but in any case it was approximately from the time he lost his market as a magazine writer till he found himself as a novelist), and he claimed to have run it through thirteen versions and a half a million words before he gave it up as unmanageable. What it had yielded, if not a novel, was a viable character so that the novels could come--Allen marks it as the discovery of the "Cary man"--and Bishop has put together selections from earlier and later drafts so that we can see what he means. Start to finish, Jarvis is an estimable Victorian crank who appears to have realized… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, (1974).. First edition.. xvii + 267 w/notes & glossary. Light rumple to first leaf, some offsetting to endpapers. In all, near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Walter Allen. Edited by A.G. Bishop.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. 071811261x . There is some general overall wear. .

London: Michael Joseph. Stain on front cover, else a very good copy. 1974. 1st. hardcover. 8vo .

St. Martin's Press, 1975. 1st US . Hardcover. Very Good. Edited by A.G. Bishop. Foreword by Walter Allen. Ex-library, slightly smaller book, DJ beneath library plastic deep orange with white and black lettering, 267 lightly browned pages. Very Good, considering it is ex-library.

St. Martin's. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. Stamped on inside. In protective mylar cover.

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 071811261x . Library withdrawl, still tight and clean in clean dj under library laminate. 265 pp .

St. Martin's. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. (Fiction)

St. Martin's. Very Good. Fine/NearFine in mylar DJ, Price clipped. 2 inch crease to corner of front flap. (Edition:First Edition) 1975 US 1st edition, Near Fine/Near Fine DJ in Mylar, price-clipped dustjacket has very light fading to red coloring on spine, in Mylar, clean & square, no markings found, sound binding, a nice copy.

Joseph, 1974T. hardcover. Very Good. . Cover edges have light wear. Pages are clean/intact.\r\n

London.: Michael Joseph,, 1975 2nd impression. Hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. 8vo. VG+ in VG d/w price marked £2.75.

New York: St. Martin's, 1974. 1975,1st Amer . Hardcover. Very Good+/Dust Jacket Included. Fore-edge has a small waterstain. very good in vg+ dj, gold-stamped gray bds 267 pgs

Michael Joseph. A vg copy in a like, unclipped jkt which has had the price marked through in biro, else jkt is also vg. No other markings; guaranteed condition . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. 1975.

St. Martin's. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Dissenters, Unfinished Novels, Fiction)

Joseph, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is slightly rubbed. A few nicks and a little label residue. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

LONDON: Michael Joseph, 1974. Edited by A. G. Bishop; Foreword by Walter Allen; 267pp. Tight, clean copy. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Michael Joseph, 1974. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is faded at the spine. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (grey boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8” x 5¼” (0.7 kg); (xvii) 267pp; Edited by A. G. Bishop; Cover art by John Riley; Preface by A. G. Bishop; Illustrated by way of: Glossary; ISBN: 071811261X || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #178436|| Condition:

new hc

1974. London, Joseph, 1974. 21 cm. xvii, 267 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.